1. Data Protec­tion at a Glance

The following infor­ma­tion provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. 

Respon­sible Entity

Batemo GmbH
Benzs­traße 15
76185 Karlsruhe
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 721 90990170
Email: info@batemo.de

2. Visiting Our Website

When you access our website, we collect and process the following data: 

• Refer­ring website;
• Browser type and operating system used;
• Your IP address;
• Requested files, trans­ferred data volumes, downloads/file exports;
• Infor­ma­tion about the websites you visit on our site, including date and time.

We transfer this data to Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany, as they host our website exter­nally, on the basis of a data processing agree­ment. This processing is neces­sary to safeguard our legit­i­mate inter­ests in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate interest lies in ensuring the function­ality and technical security of our website, in partic­ular by defending against attempts to attack our web server. 

We use Google reCAPTCHA on our website and employ the services of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. As part of the process of verifying that you are human, we process your IP address and user behavior, such as the length of time you spend on the website and your mouse or touchpad movements. The processing of this data is neces­sary to safeguard our legit­i­mate inter­ests in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate interest lies in protecting our website from abusive automated spying and spam. 

3. Contact via Contact Form

If you contact us via the contact form, the personal data provided in the contact form will be processed solely for the purpose of processing your request. If your request relates to an existing contrac­tual relation­ship with you or if you are inter­ested in concluding a contract and contact us, the processing of this data is neces­sary in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) lit. b) GDPR for the perfor­mance of the contract or for the imple­men­ta­tion of pre-contrac­tual measures. Other­wise, the processing of this data is neces­sary in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR to safeguard our legit­i­mate interest in being able to respond to your request with the infor­ma­tion relevant to you. If you volun­tarily provide optional infor­ma­tion, the processing of your corre­sponding personal data is based on your consent in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a) GDPR. 

4. Newsletter

You can subscribe to a free newsletter on our website. When you register for the newsletter, we collect the data you enter, in partic­ular your email address. This data is processed in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR on the basis of your consent given to us when you regis­tered for the newsletter. You can unsub­scribe from the newsletter at any time by clicking on the unsub­scribe link in the newsletter and thus revoke your consent. 

5. Batemo Insights Account

You can create an account on our website to gain access to Batemo Insights. When you create a customer account using the corre­sponding regis­tra­tion form, we will process the personal data you provide in it. The processing of this personal data is neces­sary for the perfor­mance of a contract or for the imple­men­ta­tion of pre-contrac­tual measures in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. 

If you download certain data sets or other content via Batemo Insights, these will be marked with a digital water­mark that clearly identi­fies the platform as the source of these data sets or other content and links the respec­tive data sets or other content to the respec­tive customer account. For this purpose, we process the personal data you provide when creating a customer account. This processing is neces­sary in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) lit. f) GDPR to safeguard our legit­i­mate inter­ests. Our legit­i­mate interest here lies in ensuring platform security, preventing misuse, and, in the event of misuse, pursuing legal claims if necessary. 

6. Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser (locally on your hard drive). Techni­cally neces­sary cookies are those that are essen­tial for the opera­tion of our website. We only use cookies that are not techni­cally neces­sary after you have given your express consent, which you can of course revoke at any time. You can adjust your cookie selec­tion at any time under “Cookie Settings” in the footer. 

7. Social Media

General information 

We maintain a publicly acces­sible social media presence on the LinkedIn social network in order to offer you additional options for contacting us or receiving infor­ma­tion from us, along­side our website. When you visit our social media presence on LinkedIn, your personal data is collected, used, and stored not only by us, but also by the operator of the LinkedIn social network. This also happens if you do not have a profile on the social network yourself. The individual data processing opera­tions and their scope vary depending on the operator of the respec­tive social network and are not neces­sarily trace­able to us. For details on the collec­tion and storage of your personal data and the nature, scope, and purpose of its use by the social network operator, please refer to the privacy policy for the LinkedIn social network, which is operated by LinkedIn Ireland Unlim­ited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland. You can view this here.

When visiting our social media presence, personal data from visitors regis­tered with LinkedIn as well as those not regis­tered is processed. You use the LinkedIn social network and its functions at your own respon­si­bility. This applies in partic­ular to the use of inter­ac­tive functions (e.g., sharing, rating). 

We process the following data from regis­tered visitors to our social media presence: 

• User ID or username under which you have registered;
• Shared profile data (e.g., name, occupa­tion, addresses, contact details, and, where applic­able, special categories of personal data such as religious affil­i­a­tion, health data, etc.)
• Data gener­ated when sharing content, exchanging messages, and communicating;
• Data required in the context of contract initi­a­tion and processing at the request of regis­tered visitors.

Other­wise, we only process pseudo­nymized data such as statis­tics and insights into how our social media presence and the content provided on it are inter­acted with, as well as evalu­a­tions of the success and background of our adver­tise­ments. We cannot merge the pseudo­nymized data ourselves with the corre­sponding identi­fi­ca­tion feature (e.g., name details). This means that we are unable to identify individual visitors, who there­fore remain anony­mous to us. 

We process this data on the following legal bases: 

• If you use our social media presence on LinkedIn to contact us, we will process the data you provide to us exclu­sively for the purpose of contacting you. The legal basis for data collec­tion is there­fore either your consent in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, provided that your request relates to an existing contrac­tual relation­ship with you or you are inter­ested in concluding a contract and contact us.
• Other­wise, data processing is based on our legit­i­mate interest in simpli­fying commu­ni­ca­tion and data exchange and optimizing our social media presence in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

We kindly ask you not to send us any personal data of special categories within the meaning of Art. 9 (1) GDPR without being asked to do so. If you do so, we will only process this data, if at all, on the basis of your express consent in accor­dance with Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR or if you have obviously made it public in accor­dance with Art. 9 (2) (e) GDPR. 

Only our employees and service providers who manage our social media presence and need the data for the above-mentioned purposes have access to the data we process. If the data subjects post their data publicly on our social media presence, it can be accessed by other regis­tered and, in some cases, unreg­is­tered visitors, including those from third countries. 

Joint controllers 

When you visit our social media page, we are jointly respon­sible for processing your data with the operator of the LinkedIn platform in accor­dance with Art. 26 GDPR. To guarantee your rights and in accor­dance with the provi­sions of the GDPR, we have concluded an agree­ment within the meaning of Art. 26 (1) GDPR, which sets out rules for the processing of your personal data. Further infor­ma­tion on our joint respon­si­bility can be found in this agree­ment at the following link.

You can contact the company LinkedIn regarding the processing of your data and assert your rights. More detailed infor­ma­tion about your rights can be found below in this privacy policy. In addition, pursuant to Art. 22 (1) GDPR, you have the right not to be subject to automated individual decision-making. If such automated individual decision-making is permis­sible under Article 22(2)(a) to (c) GDPR, you have the right under Article 22(3) GDPR to obtain human inter­ven­tion on the part of the controller, to express your own point of view, and to contest the decision. 

8. Contacting us for appli­ca­tion purposes 

We are delighted that you are inter­ested in working for us. If you contact us for this purpose via the email address career@batemo.de, we will process the personal data you provide in this context, such as your name, address, contact details, and the personal data provided in your appli­ca­tion documents, solely for the purpose of effec­tively and correctly handling the appli­ca­tion process and for the purpose of contacting you during the appli­ca­tion process. The data will not be passed on to third parties unless you give your consent. 

We also process data that we have obtained in a permis­sible manner from publicly acces­sible direc­to­ries (e.g., profes­sional networks). 

This data is processed in accor­dance with Art. 88 (1) GDPR in conjunc­tion with § 26 BDSG. If you volun­tarily provide infor­ma­tion other than that requested by us, the processing of your corre­sponding personal data is based on your consent in accor­dance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. 

We ask you not to send us any personal data of a special category within the meaning of Art. 9 (1) GDPR in your appli­ca­tion documents or in any other contact. If you do so, we will only process this data, if at all, on the basis of your express consent in accor­dance with Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR, which you gave us prior to sending your appli­ca­tion documents. 

9. Deletion or blocking of data 

We adhere to the princi­ples of data avoid­ance and data minimiza­tion. There­fore, we only store your personal data for as long as is neces­sary to achieve the purposes stated here or as required by the storage periods stipu­lated by law. Please note that numerous legal reten­tion oblig­a­tions require that data must continue to be stored (e.g., under the German Commer­cial Code or the German Fiscal Code). If there are no further reten­tion oblig­a­tions, the data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accor­dance with the statu­tory provi­sions once the respec­tive purpose has ceased to apply or these periods have expired. Your personal data will also be deleted after you have effec­tively asserted your right to object to the processing and after you have revoked your consent, provided that there is no other legal basis for the processing. 

10. Recip­i­ents of the data / categories of recipients

We ensure that only those persons who need your personal data to perform their tasks receive it. In many cases, we are supported by the service providers named in this privacy policy, whom we have carefully selected and commis­sioned within the frame­work of order processing in accor­dance with Art. 28 GDPR. These service providers are bound by our instruc­tions and are regularly monitored by us. Other­wise, no data is passed on to third parties unless we are obliged to do so by manda­tory legal provi­sions, in partic­ular to external bodies such as super­vi­sory author­i­ties or law enforce­ment agencies. 

11. Trans­fers to Third Countries

We transfer your personal data to service providers outside the European Economic Area (“third countries”) as speci­fied in this privacy policy. Data is only trans­ferred to third countries if this is neces­sary for the perfor­mance of a contrac­tual oblig­a­tion, if it is required by law, or if you have given us your consent to do so. 

The European Commis­sion certi­fies that some third countries have data protec­tion standards compa­rable to those of the European Economic Area through so-called adequacy decisions (a list of these countries and a copy of the adequacy decisions can be found here).

12. Your Rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, and restrict the processing of your data, as well as the right to data porta­bility. If you have given us your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawful­ness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to its withdrawal. 

Right to object: If we process your personal data on the legal basis of balancing inter­ests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR and this is done for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object to this at any time; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing. We will then no longer process your data for these purposes. If we process your data for other purposes on the basis of a balancing of inter­ests, you have the right to object on grounds relating to your partic­ular situa­tion. We will then no longer process the personal data for these purposes, unless we can demon­strate compelling legit­i­mate grounds for the processing that override your inter­ests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise, or defend legal claims. 

Super­vi­sory authority respon­sible for us:
The State Commis­sioner for Data Protec­tion and Freedom of Infor­ma­tion Baden-Württemberg
Prof. Dr. Tobias Keber
Heilbronner Straße 35
70191 Stuttgart 

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal require­ments or to imple­ment changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when intro­ducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.